[Prism54-devel] Attempting to assoc with hostap-driven AP

Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof@ruslug.rutgers.edu
Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:37:33 -0500


I see some oid messages in the logs, these have been removed from
standard verbose setup. Are you using an old driver?

	Luis

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:47:41PM +0200, vda wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> I just installed SMC card with prism54 chip
> I'm trying to assoc with nearby (1 meter)
> hostap-driven AP Its associating but is unstable.
> 
> The setup:
> 
> AP box:
>   hw: DLink DWL-520 802.11b Prism2.5 PCI card
>   kernel: 2.6.2-rc2
>   patches:
> 	hostap-linux-2.6.0-test2.patch (hostap-0.1.2 I believe),
> 	patch-2.6-prism54-cvs-latest.bz2
> (btw, patch-2.6-prism54-cvs-YYYYMMDD.bz2 would be better for
> version identification purposes, /me thinks)
> 
> This box was acting as AP and WDS for quite some time.
> STAs were DWL-520s too. Now I try to add STA with this new card.
> 
> STA box:
>   hw: SMC 2802W
>   kernel & patches: same
> 
> I modprobe prism54 and upload firmware w/o problems.
> Then I try to associate.
> 
> watch 'iwconfig eth1' shows:
> Mode:Managed  Channel:11  Access Point: 00:05:5D:FA:58:45
> 	but after ~15-30 sec it is falling back to
> Mode:Managed  Channel:nn  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 	and reassociating again...
> 
> hostap driver in AP box logs this:
> 16:08:18 disassociation: 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 len=2, reason_code=8
> 16:08:20 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 auth_cb - STA authenticated
> 16:08:20 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 auth_cb - authentication failed
> 16:08:20 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 auth_cb - authentication failed
> 16:08:21 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 auth_cb - STA authenticated
> 16:08:21 assoc from 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 with extra data (10 bytes) 
> [<32><08><0c><12><18><24><30><48><60><6c>]
> 16:08:21 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 assoc_cb - STA associated
> 16:08:26 disassociation: 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 len=2, reason_code=8
> 16:08:27 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 auth_cb - STA authenticated
> 16:08:27 assoc from 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 with extra data (10 bytes) 
> [<32><08><0c><12><18><24><30><48><60><6c>]
> 16:08:27 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 assoc_cb - STA associated
> 16:08:30 disassociation: 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 len=2, reason_code=8
> 16:08:32 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 auth_cb - STA authenticated
> 16:08:32 assoc from 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 with extra data (10 bytes) 
> [<32><08><0c><12><18><24><30><48><60><6c>]
> 16:08:32 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 assoc_cb - STA associated
> 16:08:34 disassociation: 00:04:e2:64:15:e5 len=2, reason_code=8
> ...
> 
> prism54 driver in STA box logs this:
> 16:04:03 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:04:04 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:04:04 TRAP: oid 0x18000001, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:04:04 TRAP: oid 0x18000003, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:04:26 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:04:26 last message repeated 2 times
> 16:04:26 TRAP: oid 0x18000001, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:04:40 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:04:41 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:04:42 TRAP: oid 0x18000001, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:04:47 last message repeated 5 times
> 16:04:51 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:04:52 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:04:53 TRAP: oid 0x18000001, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:04:53 TRAP: oid 0x18000003, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:05:57 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:05:57 last message repeated 2 times
> 16:05:57 TRAP: oid 0x18000001, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:06:00 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:06:01 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:06:02 TRAP: oid 0x18000001, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:06:28 TRAP: oid 0x18000003, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:06:28 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:06:33 last message repeated 4 times
> 16:06:34 TRAP: oid 0x18000001, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:06:47 last message repeated 4 times
> 16:06:51 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:06:52 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:06:53 TRAP: oid 0x18000001, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:06:54 TRAP: oid 0x18000001, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:07:59 TRAP: oid 0x18000003, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> 16:07:59 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:07:59 last message repeated 2 times
> 16:08:18 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:08:19 TRAP: oid 0x1, device 3, flags 0x0 length 4
> 16:08:20 TRAP: oid 0x18000001, device 3, flags 0x0 length 12
> ...
> -- 
> vda
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